different between castanea vs chestnut

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (kastáneia), from ???????? (kástana)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kas?ta.ne.a/, [käs??t?äneä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kas?ta.ne.a/, [k?s?t???n??]

Noun

castanea f (genitive castaneae); first declension

1. a chestnut tree
2. a chestnut (nut)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (chestnut tree): castane?rius (Mediaeval)

Derived terms

• castane?lis
• castane?rius
• castaneolus
• castan?tum
• castaneus

Descendants

References

• cast?n?a in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• castanea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cast?n?a in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 271/2
• “castanea” on page 281/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

English

Etymology

Formerly chesten nut, from Middle English chesten, Middle English chesteyne, chasteine, from Old English ?isten and reinforced by Old French chastaigne, both from Latin cast?nea, from Ancient Greek ????????? (kastáneia).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?t??s.n?t/, /?t??st.n?t/

Noun

chestnut (countable and uncountable, plural chestnuts)

1. A tree or shrub of the genus Castanea.
2. A nut of this tree or shrub.
3. (uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour, as seen on the fruit of the chestnut tree.

4. A reddish-brown horse.
5. (uncountable) The wood of a chestnut tree.
6. An old joke; a worn-out meme, phrase, ploy, etc. so often repeated as to have grown tiresome or ineffective (often in the phrase "old chestnut").
7. A round or oval horny plate found on the inner side of the leg of a horse or other animal, similar to a birthmark on a human.

   Synonym: night eye

8. (Britain) The horse-chestnut.

Synonyms

• (tree): chestnut tree

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Gujarati: ??????? (ces?ana?)

Translations

Adjective

chestnut (not comparable)

1. Of a deep reddish-brown colour, like that of a chestnut.

Translations

Related terms

• castanet

See also

• chestnut on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Chesnutt